I have loved all of David Mitchell’s books, especiallyGhostwritten and Black SwanGreen. His new book is set on the tiny island of Dejima, the Dutch East India Company’s remotest Japanese trading post in 1799. I am really looking forward to reading it and am hoping it is good enough to win him the Booker Prize, as it would be fantastic to see him win.

Rose Tremain won the Orange prize in 2008 with The Road Home, so it is exciting to see that she has a new book out in 2010. Trespass is set in an isolated French farmhouse and is described as a powerful, unsettling novel. I can’t wait!

If you loved We Need To Talk About Kevin as much as I did, then you will be looking forward to reading her latest book. It focuses on a woman suffering from an aggressive form of cancer, so I’m sure it will be another emotional read.

This promises to be the most controversial release of 2010. I loved the His Dark Materials Trilogy and hope that this will be just as good. Either way, I’m sure this will be the most talked about book of 2010!

A book about a taxidermist, a howler monkey and a donkey called Beatrice doesn’t sound like the best book of the year, but the premise of Life of Pi didn’t look very good either. Another contender for the Booker prize?

What Was Lost was a very promising debut, so I am looking forward to finding out what her second novel is like. She has originality on her side – I’ve not read a literary mystery focusing on a television anchorman before!

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Ooh, what an interesting list! I didn’t know about the Shriver or the Rose Tremain, both of which I will be keen to read.
As for me, I’m looking forward to seeing Jennie Rooney’s follow up to her debut novel, and the new Blake Morrison. And I’ve already read the new Margaret Forster which is coming out in February and is wonderful!

Verity, I haven’t heard of Jennie Rooney or Blake Morrison, so I’ll have to look them up. I haven’t read any Margaret Forester yet either, but I’m pleased to hear that you enjoyed it. Thank you for the recommendations!

Greetings all, thanks for all the fun tidbits and recommendations, now I’ll get absolutely nothing done!

I just read The Liquid City by Curtis J Hopfenbeck and absolutely adored it. It was the wittiest and most fun I’ve had reading a book in years. Nothing heavy or emotive, just a great book, with encompassing characters, and a fantastic ending. Plus, it’s going to be a series, and a movie, so I’ll be excited to hear more about both. Thanks everyone, what a fun site!

The Fforde and the Martel books are the ones I am most excited about. I’ll read the Shriver novel although I haven’t read her others yet excluding We Need to Talk About Kevin so won’t be buying it upon release.

I am also looking forward to The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis, The Stars in the Bright Sky (sequel to The Sopranos) by Alan Warner and The Dragonfly Summer by Eva Rice.

Claire, Thank you for pointing those out. I haven’t read any Martin Amis, so should probably do that before getting his new one. I only have a vague idea of who Alan Warner and Eva Rice are, so I’ll let you tell me if their books are worth me reading.

Well, being one of those lucky people who has read the new Jasper Fforde novel (though technically in the U.S. it is a 2009 release!), I can say it is definitely fantastic and will proudly sit on my shelf next to all of his other books. Also, it’s the start of a new series so people who haven’t read his other stuff needn’t feel obligated to do so before giving this a try!

The books of 2010 that I’m most looking forward to? Joshua Ferris has a new book coming out in Feb, though I’ve heard mixed things, so we’ll see how that goes. And apparently Jonathan Franzen may have a new book coming out, which I’d be very interested in taking a look at. Finally, I’ve hard that the new Tana French novel is coming out in July, and I’m REALLY excited about that!

I’ve read Ferris’s The Unnamed (like Jackie, I wasn’t a fan of Then We Came to the End). I found the new one very uneven and at the early stages I was ready to give up on it, but in the end it’s actually very powerful, more through Ferris’s willingness to pursue the subject to its final conclusion than anything else. Someone else I know who read it called it ‘brutal’, and I’d agree with that too.

Oooooh interesting selection! I do mine at the start of the year and have a couple of the ones that are on this list on mine so far. I just received Shades of Grey and am very, very excited about it. Though its odd as a Fforde virgin at the moment it is his newest book is the one I am starting with.

Simon, I look forward to seeing what makes it onto your list. I enjoyed my only Fforde book, but I’m in no rush to read the new one – I’ll wait patiently for your opinion on it. I have a feeling that you’ll love it.

I never been one to know what the upcoming books are. Thanks for this list. I wonder if I can get my hands on a ARC or two. I’ll be putting my name on the holds list at my local library for several of these in any case.

Dorte, I don’t think I’ll be rushing out to buy those two authors either. I have a few of Sophie Hannah’s left to read and I don’t like reading several books by the same author in a row, so will spread her books out over the next few years. I haven’t even started on Tana French, but will hopefully read the first one soon.

Great list of upcoming books, thanks for sharing. I imagine tomorrow is new authors?
The authors on the list that interest me the most are
-David Mitchell
-Jasper Fforde
I’ve read more than one of each of these guys, and I’ve been impressed

The next three I’ve read one book, and really liked it, so this next read will let me know how much I like them, or not.
-Joshua Ferris
-Rose Tremain
-Lionel Shiver

raidergirl3, I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait a whole week to see the next list, whic will be about debut/lesser known authors. I’m pleased to see that you’re looking forward to David Mitchell’s book too – let’s hope it is good.

The Literary Stew, Thank you for commenting on my blog for the first time!

I’m sure that I’ll buy that on release day too, but I’m not looking forward to it so much after the disappointment of Catching Fire. I left it out of the list as I couldn’t find any firm details about release day or title, but thanks for mentioning it.

Very much looking forward to the O’Flynn – I think What Was Lost was a genuinely important book and nowhere near enough has been made of it. A new Mitchell is always an event, and eagerly awaited. A new Amis and McEwan are likewise events, but these days not so eagerly awaited.

Very much looking forward to next week’s choices and some new talent. Aside, of course, from those of my fellow Year Zero Writers, the one I’m most looking forward to is Grant Gillespie’s The Cuckoo Boy, which I was tipped the wink about by the people at To Hell With Publishing, who are bringing it out as part of their first literary novels scheme.

Dan, The first half of What Was Lost was outstanding, but I think it lost the way once the girl wasn’t narrating. I’m really hoping that she has solved that small problem with her new book and that it is outstanding all the way through. She is such a talented author that I’m sure she is capable of great things.

Oooh new David Mitchell is always something to look forward to. I’m anxiously awaiting the release of Naomi Alderman’s new book, The Lessons, in April. Her first novel Disobedience was one of my favourite reads of the Noughties. But can 2010 possibly top 2009? There seem to have been so many wonderful books this year.

I don’t know about 2010, too many great new titles / authors to choose from. For myself, I’m looking forward to early 2011 and a new Swedish author, Lars Kepler, to hit the shelves. His new character is called Detective Inspector Joona Linna and the book titled ‘The Hypnotist’.

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